| Show 04 July 2012 |
Experience the Eurovision Song Contest with Radio International and Partners.
Please note that many interviews we air are also available as video interview which can be viewed on our Radio International YouTube Channel. Just take a look and enjoy also see the artists talk to us.
 Eurovision Song Contest 2012 - in vision:
This week the team is back from the two weeks spent in Baku at the 57th
Eurovision Song Contest. You can see some of the photos here in the
four albums and enjoy. Album 1 | Album 2 | Album 3 | Album 4 | Album 5  Interview with Kurt Calleja (Malta 2012): The people
on the Maltese Islands were jumping up and down including the fans in
the Crystal Arena in Baku when on the 24 May 2012 Malta was announced as
the 9th qualifier for the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest
2012. The last time Malta was in the Final was with Chiara's third
participation with the song "What if we" in Moscow back in 2009. This
year Kurt Calleja and his team managed to put Malta back into the Grand Final with the song 'This is the night"
reaching Number 21 with 41 points. The song was co-composed by Swedish
composers. Lilian, Roger and JP met Kurt right after his first Press
Conference in the Press Centre in Baku for a little chat and his
connection to Sweden.  Interview with Compact Disco (Hungary 2012): Twice in a
row Hungary qualified for the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song
Contest after in 2011 Kati Wolf did it with a huge fan favourite called
"What about my dream". Kati was part of the jury in Hungary selecting
the Hungarian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 and she was
very confident when Radio International interviewed her after the
national final that Compact Disco was the right choice to send to Baku
representing Hungary at the 57th Eurovision Song Contest. The song is
called "The Sound of hour heart" received 19 points in the Grand Final
placing Hungary at Number 24. Lilian, JP and Roger met two of Compact
Disco for an interview in the Press Centre right after their first Press
Confernce.
More interviews with the 2012 Eurostars will be on the next editions of
Radio International. Watch out for them every Wednesday.
 Interview with Ralph Siegel (Germany 1982, San Marino 2012, etc): Also
known as Mr. Eurovision - Ralph Siegel is one of the greatest
songwriters and composers of our time as far as the German music market
is concerned. Way over 2000 songs are registered under his name. His
most successful song at the Eurovision Song Contest to date is "Ein
bisschen Frieden" performed in 1982 by Nicole when Germany won the
Eurovision Song Contest in Harrogate, United Kingdom. There were ups and
downs in the career of Ralph Siegel but he is always there - in fact at
the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan he celebrated hsi
40th Anniversary in the music business and his song "Social Network
Song" made it in the national selection process in San Marino thus the
performer Valentina Monetta performed the song for San Marino during the
Semi Final 1 of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 but failed to quality
for the Grand Final. Lilian and JP had a great pleasure and huge honour
to speak to Ralph Siegel. Listen to the interview in this week's edition
of Radio International.
 Eurovision Song Contest Spotlight - The Host Entries:
After reflecting on the 57th Eurovision Song Contest over the post weeks
Radio International now presents a brand new series with the Eurovision
experts in the UK and Ireland to take you through the summer. The new
series is taking a look at the entries to the Eurovision Song Contest by
the countries that were hosting the contest e.g. this year the
Eurovision Song Contest came from Azerbaijan and the Azeri entry = Host
Entry is Sabina Babayeva. Kicking off this brand new series is the Irish
voice of the team Dermot Manning.
 Euro Friends Song Contest 2012 - The Quarter Finals with Andy Simon:
Continuing next week with the Euro Friends Song Contest in search for
the ultimate
Eurovision song
as voted for by the many fans around the world. Andy Simon joins us
again next week to reveal the first qualifiers for the Quarter Finals. The
website of
the Euro Friends Song Contest you will find here
where you can easily vote for your favourite Eurovision songs you wish
to see in the next stage of the contest and also see The Euro-Friends TV
Show as hosted by Andy Simon.
You can also join the Facebook Group here. Andy is back next week with the first Quarter Final Qualifiers of the Euro Friends Song Contest 2012.
 Home Composed Song Contest 2012 - Call out for submissions: As in previous years Radio International supports the Home Composed Song Contest
which is a songwriters competition across Europe and beyond. 2012 marks
the 21st edition of the Song Contest and the 2011 edition was won by
Denmark and this year's edition is hosted by Spain. Contact the website of the Home Composed Song Contest
to find out further details how to submit your entries and also what
the schedule looks like. Samuel Bugia Garrido and his team is ready to
guide you through the contest. Their email address is
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 Eurovision Song Contest News: Luke
Fisher
joins the team in the studio every week to bring you the news
and the latest developments connected to the Eurovision Song Contest.
Whether it is music releases of Eurovision performers, special
concerts, gossip, etc Luke will have it all for us during the weekly
edition of Radio International. He also takes a look at some statistics
such as viewing figures in the various countries and more.
In addition, Eurovision News is available on www.eurovision.tv, escxtra.com, esctoday.com and escflashmalta.com.
Eurovision Song Contest Calendar of Events: Check out a detailed listing of all events scheduled around Europe. If you hear of something we have not listed please drop us a line by clicking here and
let us know. After Eurovision is before Eurovision and to bridge the
Eurovision Gap many Eurovision Clubs will be holding their annual
convention.
Upcoming Events:
06 July 2012: EUROFEST in London's Royal Vauxhall Tavern (Details)
03 - 05 August 2012: OGAE Germany & Finland's Eurovision weekend in Berlin
01 - 03 September 2012: OGAE Finland organises a Eurovision Cruise. Click here for details.
08 September 2012: OGAE Portugal's Annual Open Air Eurovision Concert in Setubal
 Eurovision Quiz: Scratch your heads and bite your
nails at our weekly Eurovision Song Contest Quiz. Good luck and win a
copy of a past Eurovision Song Contest Final on DVD. All you have to do
is to identify the five clips with Artist, Song, Country and Year. Send
your answers via the website's CONTACTs form. As long as stock last you can also select something out of
the Eurovision 2010 Goodies Bag. Good Luck! Congratulations go to Bert Ouwerkerk from Utrecht, The Netherlands for winning this week's Clip Quiz.
Eurovision Music requests as well as other music requests are most welcome and can be done via our website's CONTACT US page. Let us know what you want to hear and where you are from. Due
to the large number of requests we received and cannot accommodate this
week these requests will be added to the play list for the future
shows.
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